# Error installing ROR on Ubuntu

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470 "2007-02-13T21:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Felipe_SodrSSSS_Sil)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470/1 "2007-02-13T21:40:53Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 6.06, running on a AMD  
Turion64.

I installed the ruby interpreter, RubyGems and wrote:

\*gem install rails --include-dependencies

\*but I’m receiving the following error message:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError)  
gzip error installing  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/activesupport-  
1.4.1.gem

It seems like it can’t install the activesupport dependency.  
I even tried to update my gzip but it didn’t work either.

Any toughts on that?

Thank you.

Felipe

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Felipe_SodrSSSS_Sil)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470/2 "2007-02-13T21:55:54Z")

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I would check you permissions on your Ruby installation. You may need  
to run the command as root:

sudo gem install…

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Felipe_SodrSSSS_Sil)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470/3 "2007-02-13T22:48:00Z")

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I have already tried that as well =(

Thanks anyway

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Felipe\_SodrSSSS\_Sil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Felipe_SodrSSSS_Sil)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-ror-on-ubuntu/85470/4 "2007-02-19T19:12:32Z")

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Felipe;

> Hi, I’m trying to install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 6.06, running on a  
> AMD  
> Turion64.

Have you tried the deprec way?  
See the free screencast :  
[http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov](http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov)

It takes care of everything.

Alain